Award-winning Portland comics artists Farel Dalrymple and Ryan
Alexander-Tanner return to the KBOO studios with fresh stories and new
projects to share. Between stints at DC and Marvel, Farel is publishing
the second volume of his celebrated series Pop Gun War for Dark ...
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"Calamity Jon" Morris is an author, illustrator, and designer who has been
collecting obscure and eccentric comic books since his earliest years. In
2015, he turned his passion into the scholarly and boisterous anthology The
League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Bake...
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In this encore episode from March 2015, we learn about renters' rights with
the help of cartoonist Becky Hawkins and the late Justin Buri,
onetime Executive Director of Portland's Community Alliance of Tenants.
When local educational group Know Your City needed a medium ...
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Ayelet Waldman is a mother of teenagers, a former federal public defender,
and a writer living with mood disorders who discovers an underground
culture of clinicians advocating for the therapeutic use of LSD. Having
exhausted virtually every other medical option for her...
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Produced at the height of the Hollywood Red Scare by blacklisted filmmakers,
1954's Salt of the Earth is a groundbreaking drama that highlights the roles
of Latina women and striking mineworkers. Jenn Chavez talks with the
organizers of an upcoming event at the Hollywoo...
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Animated Worlds is the Portland International Film Festival's showcase for
animated features and shorts, sponsored by local animation studio Laika
Entertainment. Joining us to talk about their latest films are
Portlander-turned-New-Yorker Bill Plympton (Revengeance) and...
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Harrow County is Dark Horse's acclaimed new Gothic Horror comics
series from the artist and writer team of Tyler Crook and Cullen
Bunn. Set in North Carolina in the last century, the story follows the
mysterious forces that haunt a rural agricultural community and possi...
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We welcome three directors of short films chosen to premiere at the 40th
annual Portland International Film Festival. Vu Pham is the creator of the
sci-fi noir mashup The Cutting Shadow, Rollyn Stafford directed the modern
comedy of manners Your Move, and Jan Haaken's l...
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In this encore episode from October 2015, political cartoonist
and international troublemaker Ted Rall returns to the KBOO studios with
his graphic biography of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Drawing from
Ted's conversations with Snowden's own ACLU attorney as well a...
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